By David Crystal

New from Cambridge University Press!

By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

Book Information

This volume examines the relationship between language and literacy from asystemic functional perspective. The book starts with a retrospective viewon the development of language education practices, written by eminentlinguistics Michael Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, and then shows how thisapproach is implemented today. The second section presents a detailedanalysis of how considerations of literacy education are approached ineducational systems around the world. The contributors examine issues suchas metadiscourse, genre, cultural politics, and how systemic functionalgrammar can help to raise literacy standards. The final section looks atliteracy in more specific disciplines, including history, literature,science and student writing. The essays collected here present acomprehensive analysis of language and literacy from a systemic functionalperspective, written by academics at the forefront of the field. It will beof interest to researchers in systemic functional linguistics, or languageand education.